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Billy Button, Telegram Boy

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Interest Age 5-8 | One of our Books of the Year 2016 | July 2016 Book of the Month

Meet the Buttons. Mrs Button runs a shop – the nicest thing about it, she says, is the people – Mr Button runs the post office. The story is set in the days before text messages, emails, the internet and if you want to send a message urgently, a telegram is the way to do it. Young Billy Button longs to be a telegram boy, delivering those important messages on a shiny red bicycle. He gets to do it too, breaking a few Royal Mail rules but ensuring two people get to live happily ever after in the process. It’s a really happy story, a celebration of communication and of thinking the best of our neighbours, and lovely to look at too.

Easy to read, this brings to mind Allan Ahlberg’s Happy Families series in its charm, warmth and optimism.

Andrea Reece

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